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I always wanted to go here and camp

It's a cool park. Not huge but great natural features

Are there bison?

Prairie just hits different

Yep.

https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/state_parks/blue_mounds/bison-herd-faq-blue-mounds-state-park.html

They don't look really blue..

Laura Ingalls Wilder who wrote the Little House on the Prairie book series based on her life experiences, writes about the Kansas plains in the most descriptive way I’ve ever read. The endlessness of the grass, the flatness, the way it messes with your eyes and your mind. Super interesting!

I'm sorry. I do my best to practice self restraint when I see things like this on this sub. But I can't hold back for this one. This is objectively boring and completely devoid of any unique or interesting feature. I could find something like this in my neighborhood park. All this post has done is convince me to never go to this place.

Now show us what it looks like in the winter

Perhaps look a little closer (metaphorically). This is a picture of a remnant patch of prairie, I.e. prairie that was spared from the plowing and tilling that cultivated over 90% of grasslands across the US. https://www.nps.gov/tapr/learn/nature/a-complex-prairie-ecosystem.htm

Prairie ecology requires a little knowledge to fully appreciate, and lack the curb appeal of places like the Tetons, or other charismatic landscapes. With a little understanding however, prairies hit above their weight. Prairie grasses are deep rooted, sending roots and rhizomes to depths reaching 10-15 feet for some species. In the ~10,000 years since the retreat of glaciers, these grasses had built some of the deepest and most fertile soils in the US, hence the productivity of the “breadbasket”.

Thanks OP for sharing a bit of prairie magic, Blue Mounds is a very special place.

A few years ago when I went through my midlife crises I went on several “therapy drives” . I would drive far and as fast in a couple of days then slowly make my way home stopping at Mound building sites, native prairies , bison preserves, and obscure local museums and points of interest. There are so few native prairies they should be designated holy sites.

Cool!

Nature is weird, in' it?

They could have just as well have called it "big Clumpy rocks State park." Or, "every so often, there aren't weeds state park."

I camped there decades ago and loved it. It's also an easy drive to Pipestone National Monument.

And snakes. I saw some on my hike there.

They have some mounds and cliffs in a different part of the park.

Ooo like prairie rattle snakes? I went to south dakota I never saw snakes I want to see them so bad

There are also cliffs and mounds and bisons and whatever else.